1.   At the same time, the inmate population is becoming more middle-aged, so wardens envision a future of caring for more of the infirm.

2.   Both facilities can house hundreds of prisoners, and both have isolation units to segregate those held in correction with the attacks from the rest of the inmate population.

3.   A number of county houses of corrections, meanwhile, also are under court orders to cap their inmate populations.

4.   But, he added, with soaring inmate populations, the state has deemed them indispensable.

5.   Corrections officials across the country say controlling prisons is becoming more difficult because of increasing inmate populations, harder-core prisoners and tighter budgets.

6.   Georgia has one of the highest prison incarceration rates in the country, but its inmate population is growing at a slower rate than in most states.

7.   Growth in prison staffing continues to outpace growth in inmate population.

8.   Georgia needs money for more prisons because there is no more room left in a system whose inmate population grows daily.

9.   Here at Catia, the inmate population is larger than it was when the mass killings occurred two years ago.

10.   However, the governor and Senate Republicans predict an immediate decrease in the inmate population followed by reasonable growth.